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Back to School, Gaza Style

Posted in Media Monitoring, tagged , , , , on January 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Text Reads: “Martyr Student: Ahmed Ziad Al-Absi, 6th Grade”

Photo courtesy of Al Baath Newspaper.

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Concert: “Echo of Gaza’s Children Screams”

Posted in Culture and Arts, Music, Syria, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I got the following via email, asking me to publish it here.. I gladly comply

Dear ECHO Members and Friends,
ECHO Musical Cultural Association in collaboration with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) invite you to support the children of Gaza by attending the following fundraising concert:

Concert: “Echo of Gaza’s Children [...]

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Where I’ve Been, Gaza took me

Posted in General Nonsense, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 17, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Gaza took me, I didn’t go there, But ever since January 1st I’ve been spending most of my evenings at the Syrian Red Crescent, working with the volunteers on the Donations Campaign for Gaza relief efforts.
I will not say anything about the massacre, I still can’t find the words. Instead, here’s how you can help [...]

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Palestinian Scarf, Resistance ‘a la mod’

Posted in General Nonsense, State of the Republic, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 9, 2008 | 11 Comments »

Picture taken from a magazine ad for a local radio station.
Today, you can hardly walk the streets of Damascus without passing by quite a few young men and women wearing Palestinian scarves, which at one point became a symbol of the resistance and the “Fida’ees”, a symbol of freedom fighters and an ever lingering dream [...]

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